Mint Themes Ezekiel Theme Review

The Ezekiel theme is a WordPress theme which is a perfect option for Churches who want to create an interactive website. The theme offers some very nice and easy to use church-specific features like photo gallery, events, sermon podcasts, etc. Users will also find some social networking features like Twitter, Facebook, on the homepage. The theme is mobile friendly so that users are able to access it from all portable and communication devices easily.

Features:

• Documentation

When the theme is purchased, a user guide and documentation is also given along with it. This documentation contains step by step procedure of using the particular features and functions of the theme.

• Page templates

This wonderful theme offers six page templates namely the general posts, events, sermons, photo album, news, and full width. You can add new page templates like links, etc. which have new functionalities and allow you to add more functions to your website or blog. The users can also customize these page templates in the way they want.

• Custom widgets

The theme offers four custom widgets. The custom widgets can be placed and utilised in any way you want so that it suits the needs and requirements of your website.

• Custom post types

You will get four custom post types namely Photo, album, Sermons, and news so that you can manage your work in a better way, the theme offers custom post types feature which will simplify your project editing. The custom post types feature allows users to display product options, and slides. Moreover, you can set-up individual post types with the help of in-built Meta boxes.

• Theme options panel

The option panel allows users to create designer websites using the custom fonts, custom colour options, and many more customizable features. The theme option panel gives users full control over logo, colour, site background, in-built page templates, custom menu integration, and much more.

• Drop down menus

You will find a very powerful and useful drag and down menu feature present in this theme. With this feature, users will be able to include many options and their visitors will simply have to click on the drop down arrow to select their choice. Moreover, no coding skills are required for performing using this feature.

• Podcast friendly

The theme is podcast friendly which will enhance your website’s functionality and features.

• Post Sermon MP3

The users will be able to upload Sermon MP3 files easily by which their visitors will be able to hear online audio player and much more. They can also download Sermons and listen to it while they are offline.

• Logo uploading

It will become easy for users to promote and maintain their brands. The logo uploader option provided with this theme will allow them to include multiple logos in their store which will suit different purposes.

• Homepage slider

The homepage offered by the theme is designed beautifully with a product carousel and slider. Moreover, many other features will be found on the homepage section of your website.

• Responsive design

The responsive design feature will make your website look incredibly awesome even on the small screens like those of mobile phones and other communication devices. The theme is created in such a way so that it adapts itself according to the device’s display features.

• WordPress 3.4 compatibility

This theme is fully compatible with WordPress 3.4 version and works perfectly with it.

• News and announcements

The users can post as well as show news on the homepage with the help of the widget provided. Every headline will in turn be linked to the complete and detailed article.

• Events

You can easily post events on a special section. The times, dates, description, and location can also be included for every event.

• PSD files

Those theme users who want to modify the graphics can make use of the layered PSD design files available with this theme.

• Photo Album

The Photo album feature offered by this WordPress theme allows you to create multiple photos where every photo can contain a number of photos or photo sets. Every photo will get a page which can be used for displaying full images, comments, along with their description.

• Photo slider

The photo slider option provided with this theme allows you to display images of events, churches, and much more right on the homepage to your visitors. Slides can easily be managed using the theme options panel and this feature will eventually give a new look and feel to your website.

• Custom page templates

Ezekiel theme offers beautifully designed and easy to customize page templates including full width, events, news, general posts, sermons, and photo albums.

The theme offers many spots on the website where users can easily post their church service times, and location along with some other details as well.

• Contact form

To make the contact between the visitors and the website owners easy, the contact form widget was included in this theme. Here, the customers can write their complaints, questions, or feedback any number of times and from anywhere. Moreover, the website creators will have full control over field labels, emails, messages, and so on.

• Auto image resizing

This theme offers in-built software which will resize your uploaded images automatically to fix in the required size and space.

• Social integration

This feature displays cool and simple social links whenever the user wants to on their website. Moreover they can add search box near them and engage their website visitors to emphasis on their social accounts like Twitter, Google+, Bing, Facebook, You Tube, Flickr, Dribble, LinkedIn, and so on.

• Widget-ready

The widget-ready feature allows users to manage their content the way they like. This content is displayed on the sidebars so you can choose the footer and headers accordingly.

• Threaded comments

The theme allows for in-built threaded commenting options thereby creating a better customer conversation platform. The Threaded comments feature will help you connect as well as interact with readers easily. You can also keep a record of who is saying to whom and what.

Pros:

The advantages of using this theme is that it offers numerous features which will help you in making an attractive and communicative professional or business oriented website. All the features are easy to use and the support document contains step by step instruction of how to use every feature. The SEO related features will help the website in getting good web traffic thereby enhancing your website’s ranking.

Cons:

Loading speed is not very good when large amount of data, files, images and other information is kept. Moreover, the cost of this theme is high as compared to its other competitor themes.